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The Long Excuse
Why this pick
Like The Little House, it finds immense feeling in domestic routines and memory, using a restrained, compassionate Japanese drama style to observe how ordinary care reshapes a life.
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MOVIE2014 2h 16m JPN
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
Its family gathering unfolds through meals, pauses, and old grievances rather than plot turns, matching The Little House’s subtle emotional accumulation and domestic detail.
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Why this pick
Another period Japanese drama where household labor becomes emotionally expressive, with warm period texture and a woman’s resourcefulness at the center rather than grand historical spectacle.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The film is set in the 1930s and 1940s in Japan. It is narrated from the memoirs of Taki Nunomiya as an old woman. In 1930, she left Yamagata for Tokyo as an indentured servant to work as a housemaid.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Haru Kuroki
Taki Nunomiya
Yukijiro Hotaru
Shigeru Muroi
Satoshi Tsumabuki
Takeshi
Yui Natsukawa
